Posted on 02 February 2008

Matthew Holness AKA Gareth Marenghi of the eponymous cult TV show has a story in Black Static 3, which has just gone to the printer and will be out, early, in February.

The Toad and I” by Matthew Holness. The author is a “A real life TV star, most famous for his Gareth Marenghi character (absolutely brilliant — hope you’ve seen it)” and he won the 2001 Perrier Comedy Award, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s top prize.

Also two debut stories, The Morning After, is Carole Johnstone’s first author credit anywhere. Carole is a Scot now living in Essex.

Seth Skorkowsky’s The Mist of Lichthafen is his first story sale but he’s since sold other stories and they saw the light of publication before there was space for him in BS 3.Read the full story

Posted on 16 September 2006

This issue is packed out with goodies, just look at this list. Even the ads are worth a look.

Cover Art (Which I’ll put up soon!)
Fahrija Velic, BSFA Award nominated for his Interzone 201 cover (of which Richard Hawkins wrote “Blimey, this artwork is the best I’ve seen yet in any issue of Interzone; vibrant colour, well drawn, a bit vague, it almost looks like a photograph. The artist does himself proud.”) reappears with the powerful “Droid”.

Fiction: The Beekeeper by Jamie Barras. It’s a traditional biopiracy expedition but on an alien planet. The natives are traditionally restless, very restless, and alien. Time for plan Bee.
illustrated by Stefan Olsen

Distro by Tim Akers. You are a distributed personality running on a multiplicity of platforms across America. But your hardware and wetware don’t mix easily and the enemy is both without and within.
illustrated by David Gentry

The New Chinese Wives by Will McIntosh. Child sex selection brings China rebellious bachelor hordes and virtual women. But, when family is all, a patriarch needs more than Confucian wisdom to ensure another generation.
illustrated by Jesse Speak

Karel’s Prayer by Chris Beckett. If you don’t know who you are you’re infant, insane or injured and if none of the above you’re in real trouble.
illustrated by Rik Rawling

The Ship by Robert Davies. The aliens arrive and Boston Harbour is the scene of first contact. No one expected it to be the scene of last contact.

The Nature of the Beast by Jae Brim. Clark and Clio were clones of the same man, and in competition to become that man.
illustrated by David Gentry